Are you bored with Facebook?That’s the question on a lot of people’s minds lately, particularly the people over at Reuters, who conducted a pollrecently to ascertain that very thing. Coming on the heels of Facebook’s disastrous IPO and a lawsuit which claims Mark Zuckerberg was involved in some inside trading before the company went public, the poll shows that about 34% of Facebook users are spending less time on the site than before, and the reason they gave is simple: they’re bored with it.
While many laughed off the idea of Facebook being a “flash in the pan” company after Zuckerberg and his people built it into a multi-billion dollar empire, some are now eating their words as they’re realizing what should be common knowledge: people are fickle. And while some are blaming all the changes Facebook has rolled out in an effort to stay current–such as Timeline, which so many users opposed there’s now apage dedicated to getting it removed–others say the answer is much more simple than that.
We’re tired of the same old crap.
It’s nice to scroll through your newsfeed and see important updates on people you wouldn’t ordinarily get to converse with, but when it gets clogged every day with stories about how Martha is going to do laundry, make breakfast for her kids, and then take a nap, it gets old real quick. Facebook is a great place to find and post humorous things, share photos and interesting articles, and display your most acerbic wit; however, there are about eleventy thousand other social media sites that offer the same thing. Unfortunately, Facebook can’t make a boring person interesting. No matter how hard they try.
It’s possible that the world’s love affair with Facebook may be waning because people are just tired of being inundated by every little event in their friend’s lives; as we move ever forward into a technology-ridden society, the lack of privacy has never been more evident than it is on social media sites. Any and every thought, idea, milestone, and passive-aggressive comment users have is posted for the world to see on a daily basis, which personally makes me long for the days when we wrote letters to communicate with one another.
Whatever the reason, it will be interesting to see how the company withstands such heat, from both users and the swirl of rumors and accusations surrounding Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg, in the coming weeks and months.
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